Australians want an end to coal & gas approvals and urgent fixing of our environmental laws
Australians voted for climate action at the last election, but the Albanese government is still approving new climate wrecking coal and gas projects.
At 350 Australia we know that the only way we’ll see meaningful action on climate change is if we can counter the power of big fossil fuel companies with the power of people taking collective action.
Through our people-powered investigations, we bring the dodgy dealings of the fossil fuel lobby into the light, so that together we can take back our democracy from the polluters.
Australians voted for climate action at the last election, but the Albanese government is still approving new climate wrecking coal and gas projects.
Learn how much money the Morrison Government promised to the gas industry.
Learn how Commbank, ANZ, Westpac and NAB perform against the International Energy Agency’s recommendations.
We commissioned UK environmental investigators DeSmog to conduct research into the boards of Australia’s big four banks and their ties to fossil fuel companies.
In late 2020, Energy Minister Angus Taylor visited Empire Energy’s fracking site in the Northern Territory. He wasn’t the Minister responsible for the issue so we decided to take a closer look at his connections to the company.
In March 2020, the Government appointed a so-called ‘Covid Commission’ that was stacked with fossil fuel company executives and gas “kingmakers” whose vision for Australia was for more pipelines and fracking wells.
We set about investigating who was behind these proposals and set to benefit from the Government building a new gas-fired power station in the Hunter.
We found Government data on the amount of potential gas in each of these five basins and used it to calculate just how much of a climate risk they pose.
We set out to find out the extent to which the gas industry in WA holds influence over the WA Government, and the way that is impacting on WA’s approach to climate change.
From the first days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the fossil fuel lobby was running a concerted campaign to exploit the global health crisis to further its agenda.